<div>Dear all,</div>
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<div>As the semester is wrapping up, we have 3 exciting China Salon events in the coming week with President of China Merchants Bank, Prof. McFarlan and Prof. Kirby. Please kindly help forward the following announcements to your respective lists.</div>
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<div>Thank you very much for your help in the past year, and we really appreciate it!</div>
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<div>All the best,</div>
<div>Carol Yu</div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><i><span style="COLOR: red"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Speaker Series Organized by Harvard Kennedy School China Caucus </font></font></span></i></b></p>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Time:</b> 11:30am-1:30pm, Tuesday, May 5</font></font></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Location:</b><b> </b>Room Nye B & C, 5<sup>th</sup> floor, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School<b></b></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Topic: </b>The Global Financial Crisis and China’s Banks<b></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Speaker:</b> <span lang="EN">MA Weihua, President and CEO of China Merchants Bank since 1999. </span>Previously, he served as deputy director of the general office of the People’s Bank of China in 1990, deputy director of the Planning and Funding Department of the People’s Bank of China from 1991 to 1992, governor of the People’s Bank of China, Hainan Branch and head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, Hainan Branch from 1992 to 1998. </font></font></p>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="COLOR: black"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">China Merchants Bank is the sixth largest bank in China by assets. It was ranked 103<sup>rd</sup> in the list of Financial Times Global 500 companies by market capitalization in 2008. Arguably it is China’s best bank.<span> </span></font></font></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span lang="EN">Moderator:</span></b><span lang="EN"> William Overholt, </span><span>Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School; former Director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy</span></font></font></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span>Reception:</span></b><span> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Lunch will be provided, and make sure to come at 11:30am to Room Nye A to enjoy a chat with the speaker. Formal talk will start at 12pm noon at Nye B & C.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Time:</b> 4-5:30pm, Tuesday, May 5</font></font></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Location:</b><b> </b>Room 150, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School<b></b></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Topic: </b>Doing Business in China</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Speaker:</b> <span lang="EN">Warren McFarlan, Professor at the </span><span>Harvard Business School. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at the Harvard Business School since the first course on the subject was offered in 1962. He currently teaches a MBA course on "Doing Business in China in the Early 21st Century." </span></font></font></p>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Time:</b> 4-5:30pm, Thursday, May 7</font></font></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Location:</b><b> </b>Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School<b></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Speaker:</b> <span lang="EN">William Kirby, Professor at the </span><span>Harvard Business School and Professor of China Studies at Harvard University; Director of the Fairbank Center; Chairman of the Harvard China Fund; former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. </span><span lang="EN"></span></font></font></p>
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